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From: "Jiang, Zhihua" <jiangzwsu.edu>
Subject: RE: Professor Franz Pirchner
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So sad to hear the news. In addition to his pioneer work in quantitative
genetics, Professor Pirchner is actually one of the pioneers in the
molecular genetics. In 1991, Professor Pirchner supported my training in
his lab to learn the RFLP technique. Typically, it requires a week to
complete everything included in the procedure. After tests with more than
15 restriction enzymes, no polymorphic bands were shown at all in the
samples. Even so, Professor Pirchner just smiled and loved me and everyone
a lot in the lab.
Back in Nanjing, China, I started to try PCR-RFLP. Three water baths were
used to start the work. I thought things should be simple, but nothing was
reliable. When Professor Pirchner learned my terrible situation there, he
shipped me a brand new PCR thermocycler for free. It was a really advanced
model. Can you imagine this!!! I was so fortunate to have the machine,
which turned my career and work to a totally new page. In 1995, I got back
to Weihenstephan again for a short visit under his supervision and PCR-RFLP
quickly produced a good amount of DNA makers in several porcine genes.
Professor Pirchner will be missed a lot.
Zhihua
Zhihua Jiang, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Genomics
Hatch Program Chair in Animal Biology and Biomedicine
Department of Animal Sciences
Center for Reproductive Biology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-7620
Phone: 509-3358761
Email: jiangzwsu.edu
-----Original Message-----
.From: DANIEL GIANOLA <gianolaansci.wisc.edu>
.Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 9:55 AM
.To: Members of AnGenMap <angenmapanimalgenome.org>
.Subject: Professor Franz Pirchner
Prepared by Professors Max Rothschild (Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
and Leo Dempfle (Technical University of Munich, Weihenstephan, Germany)
Professor FRANZ PIRCHNER has recently passed away. He held a key
intellectual and leading position in the field of European animal science.
He was by far one of the most prominent graduates of Dr. Jay Lush at Iowa
State University.
Franz Pirchner was born 07.01.1927 in Tyrol (Austria), and died 26.07.2019.
>From 1946-1952 he studied veterinary medicine and agricultural science in
Vienna, and afterwards had an appointment with the Agricultural Chamber of
Tyrol. During that time Pirchner enjoyed visiting and reading in the
"America Haus". There he came across Lush's 'Animal Breeding Plans' and was
very much impressed by the scientific approach to genetic improvement of
livestock. In Europe at that time Mendel's laws of genetics were of course
known in animal breeding but it was unclear how to utilize operationally
that knowledge in animal breeding. Consequently Pirchner joined the group
of Dr. Lush from 1954 until 1957 as a Ph.D student.
Back in Europe he worked for some time for the Ministry of Agriculture in
Vienna and then worked for four years mainly internationally as a poultry
geneticist for the Heisdorf & Nelson Company. Afterwards he was appointed
first as a professor at the Veterinary University in Vienna and from 1971
until 1995 at the Technische Universität München. He was a talented and
enthusiastic teacher who had great influence in the academic world,
especially in Europe. He enthusiastically and unselfishly supported the
younger scientific generation as well.
His Book 'Populationsgenetik in der Tierzucht' (1974) was widely used and
there was a second edition in German and English. (see below)
In addition, Pirchner was also very early concerned about genetic
resources. There he was engaged in the conservation of the 'Tiroler
Grauvieh'. Internationally, he was active as president of the genetic
commission of the EAAP and president of the WCGALP.
He held honorary Ph.D degrees from the University of Ghent and the ETH-
Zürich.
He was also for many years editor for the journal 'Zeitschrift für
Tierzüchtung und Züchtungsbiology' (Journal of Animal Breeding and
Genetics).
Daniel Gianola
Sewall Wright Professor Emeritus of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Department of Animal Sciences
Department of Dairy Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
440 Animal Sciences Building
1675 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
USA
Fax: +1-608-262-5157
http://www.ansci.wisc.edu/...typages/gianola.html
https://dysci.wisc.edu/...faculty/dan-gianola/
https://qbi.wisc.edu/research/all-faculty/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gianola
"Nature is written in mathematical language (Galileo). If nothing else
works, try Bayes theorem"
"Bayesian methods with subjective priors may butcher the processes of
science" (adapted from Oscar Kempthorne)
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